Filebeat can load external configuration files for prospectors and modules,
which allows you to separate your configuration into multiple smaller
configuration files. See the Prospector configedit and the
Module configedit sections for details.

On systems with POSIX file permissions, all Beats configuration files are
subject to ownership and file permission checks. For more information, see
Config File Ownership and Permissions in
the Beats Platform Reference.

For module configurations, you specify the path option in the
filebeat.config.modules section of the filebeat.yml file. By default,
Filebeat loads the module configurations enabled in the
modules.d directory. For example: